Today we look at the GTA 3 alpha mod, this is what Grand Theft Auto 3 originally looked like in its beta / alpha evolution build, Rockstar Games definitely made the right decision altering the games graphics. #gta #evolution
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@paulgambro42643 ай бұрын
This is a modded reconstruction based on early screenshots, it is mostly built upon speculation
@JAMESYQ242 ай бұрын
I’m glad someone mentioned it. I’ve been looking for a real Beta/Alpha release for 15 years. The most likely thing is all builds are long gone and weren’t kept.
@OfficialSnyd2 ай бұрын
@JAMESYQ24 the alpha 1997 version of pokemon gold and silver leaked 20 years after it was shown at the spaceworld convention, never say never
@Silva_GPАй бұрын
@@OfficialSnydDifferents situations, Rockstar never showed a old beta version of GTA 3 with cartoonish graphics for the public, only the E3 beta versions showed months before the oficial released was avaliable.
@OfficialSnydАй бұрын
@@Silva_GP This is a good point actually, I believe those betas of Pokemon were from archives and only existed because of said convention
@lilwoodiewood3457Ай бұрын
@@OfficialSnydthey also weren't really any different from the first Gen games
@THRACIA776ISTHEGREATEST3 ай бұрын
This is gta 3 for the dreamcast
@DrModGTA3 ай бұрын
Pretty much yeah. It has the dreamcast intro
@RacerCat973 ай бұрын
More like the Nintendo 64 and game cube
@Maximus207783 ай бұрын
@@RacerCat97the GameCube would never look like this 😂
@johnstamos59483 ай бұрын
honestly a not the best description, the dreamcast looked better than everything at the time
@Loader2K13 ай бұрын
@@johnstamos5948: Actually, there was an Internet article from a few weeks ago that basically said that the project that would evolve into _Grand Theft Auto 3_ originally began as a pitch for an open-world game on the Dreamcast.
@the_troll3093 ай бұрын
GTA if was released on n64
@malinalungu4073 ай бұрын
Funny to think that Rockstar actually planned to make an N64 version of the original GTA called GTA 64, which it was later canned.
@the_troll3093 ай бұрын
@@malinalungu407 "canned" 💀
@the_troll3093 ай бұрын
@@malinalungu407 yeah , there's n64 cartridge pictures of it with Spanish obviously, i wish they done it
@BenHughes813 ай бұрын
We sort of had that as Body Harvest. It was made by DMA Design, which became Rockstar.
@applesandgrapesfordinner46263 ай бұрын
Needs more framerate issues
@Tholi2 ай бұрын
Please don’t call this an Alpha build, it’s misleading.
@Eazy-VАй бұрын
Clickbaited :(
@anaalkuusk949Ай бұрын
Not to mention. Even if it was alpha build, an alpha build isnt a "what couldve been". Shit video
@DoomKidАй бұрын
Yeah, the starting lines and whole premise to your video being wrong is.. well, it's something
@cybergothika690612 күн бұрын
I guess every GTA youtuber is a scammer.
@marclurr3 ай бұрын
Art style aside, the title "alpha" is given to software that is nowhere near finished. Things like low draw distance and missing mini map are really because this is no more than a debug build.
@channe30493 ай бұрын
It's a Dreamcast version of GTA3.
@marclurr3 ай бұрын
@@channe3049 which was scrapped after only a few months of work, so what I said is valid.
@Jolyne193 ай бұрын
Thank you! It was bothering me that the original uploader was complaining about certain details of the alpha without recognizing the fact that we ate looking at an unfinished game. It's misleading to frame such details as "what the game would have been".
@jekw232 ай бұрын
@@Jolyne19same, you’re never meant to see alpha builds anyway (feel free to correct me) so judging it seems pointless. It’s more out of interest to see stages of game development.
@Silva_GPАй бұрын
@@channe3049This video showed a mod made by fans, not the original beta build from Rockstar.
@nikobelic250003 ай бұрын
The art style feels like a blend of GTA 1, 2, and Advance, it's interesting it transformed from a comic book-inspired look to a more realistic urban environment. This retro aesthetic raises intriguing questions about how the game would have been received by the media if it had retained this style, especially given the intense scrutiny Rockstar faced over the game's controversial content. Also the 'Darko' mission, which involved blowing up an ice cream truck, was in fact reworked and incorporated into the final as a side mission for 'El Burro, I Scream, You Scream'. However, instead of targeting innocent pedestrians, the revised mission involves taking out mobsters.
@Defy2483 ай бұрын
Would of been weird to see healthbar at the bottom left and ammo at top right? *Laughs in GTA V HUD*
@TheDalisamaАй бұрын
And GTA IV. Most-likely the same in GTA VI.
@CARLJOHNSON-ny8sn3 ай бұрын
Claude looks like a teenage football player 😂😂😂 but the infernis car sound 😮
@MIDNIGHT_W0LF1253 ай бұрын
if im not mistaken the ice cream truck mission was the only one of darkels missions that made it into the final game
@kingvector11983 ай бұрын
The only major difference being you took the ice cream van and parked it near a warehouse of 4 Leones in Atlantic Quays, the mission from El Burro "I Scream, You Scream". Kinda makes the mission less hostile towards terrorism-based actions to be honest.
@dcarbs2979Ай бұрын
I felt sure it was a GTA2 mission and not by a character called Darkel.
@VoVilliaCorpАй бұрын
@@dcarbs2979 It's been a while since I played gta2, but I think there was a russian mafia mission where you had to arm a hare krishna bus
@F1RST_BLUD13 ай бұрын
It was almost planned to be released in ps1 dreamcast at that time
@DrModGTA3 ай бұрын
Yes and fun fact the intro to the mod features a dreamcast intro
@cool38653 ай бұрын
it was never planned to be released for the PS1 just the Dreamcast
@zombiewarrior2253 ай бұрын
I am really glad that they made all the changes they did. But the brighter colors did look pretty nice
@DrModGTA3 ай бұрын
Definitely interesting
@MrLyosea3 ай бұрын
Early 1960s looking Liberty City!
@WllKiedSnake3 ай бұрын
Kinda has that Body Harvest look.
@vieri0313 ай бұрын
It looks like Vice City. Thanks god GTAIII have this dark ambient, less colours and also fog which it makes this game much more realistic and gloomy.
@malinalungu4073 ай бұрын
It's funny because Vice City would enter development at the time GTA 3 was released
@dudemp43 ай бұрын
@@malinalungu407 and was planned to be an expansion
@Silva_GPАй бұрын
No, Vice City are far from this.
@RetroGmxАй бұрын
Либерти сити на много разнообразнее, метро, пешеходы слушающие музыку в наушниках, город словно ощущается живым, в Вайс сити этого нет
@neilpatrickhairless23 күн бұрын
I always hated GTA3 because of how ugly and dark and hard to see anything on a CRT it was
@CARLJOHNSON-ny8sn3 ай бұрын
I love this color palette reminds me of gta London 1960s anyone but I'm glad we got the gritty look in the final release and i love bright colors
@geroldgrimel48113 ай бұрын
5:52 I recognize that ice cream truck tune from Body Harvest (N64 - 1998). That was a title released by the same company, when they were called DMA Design Limited.
@Errand_chip3 ай бұрын
this is why its called alpha. it was never meant to look that bad
@1rz2rz3rz3 ай бұрын
Still better than Defective - I mean Definitive edition.
@lilskrrby3 ай бұрын
on god
@lilskrrby3 ай бұрын
@DPJDW2024 why you trippin yu fool? which generatin you talking about. you dont kno shit about anything in life. xD
@noel_9963 ай бұрын
GTA: hit and run!
@anaalkuusk949Ай бұрын
An alpha isnt a "what could've been"... Thats the whole point of calling something an "alpha" instead of "final".
@xlovingstonx3 ай бұрын
Ah yes, waits 7 minutes into an 8 minute video to finally announce that it’s just a recreation of the alpha and not the real thing. Cool!
@jekw232 ай бұрын
This is what the alpha build might have looked like? Seems a strange thing to critique as it’s an interpretation of what an early build may have been. Looks good for alpha imo.
@djuberfog63442 ай бұрын
I shit it's a mod
@sanderhackerhd83693 ай бұрын
I think this mod made it look too cartoonish, the actual sceenshots were a little bit less cartoonish
@ShaolinDave3 ай бұрын
It’s weird to criticize an alpha build’s graphics. _No_ game in its alpha stage looks like the final game. Hell, I’ve never seen an alpha look _closer_ to its final game than this. Generally, alphas are made with stand-in graphics. Several alphas I’ve seen had boxes of stick figures in place of actual characters.
@CrackerBoy133 ай бұрын
I mean honestly, the concept of GTA III starting off as a modded version of the prior 2D games really makes sense. In the OG versions they even had a top-down camera angle for both controlling Claude and driving cars. I think it’s safe to assume GTA III was originally going to be played top-down and continue the story of 2 with Claude Speed as protagonist, but the premise of an all-new 3D game (and the events of 9/11 happening during then-late development) ultimately took it in an entirely new direction.
@varvarvarvarvarvarАй бұрын
Except there was no story to continue. In GTA2 they were so dismissive of the story stuff, they called the city "Anywhere, USA". The whole atmosphere was much more of a "cops and robbers" pretend play, the writing was mostly jokes and references to support all the odd missions that made use of cars and guns. There was no protagonist, just a mute player that doesn't even have body language in cutscenes because there was no cutscenes.
@TheDalisamaАй бұрын
@@varvarvarvarvarvar Well, the only exception to that was the intro where you could actually see some of Claude's personality. That being said, the "story" of GTA 2 was pretty much optional. The only requirements for beating the game was to make a certain amount of money.
@youngemu39493 ай бұрын
“This would have sucked!” What?!? 🤯🤯🤯 the “Alpha” version would have sucked‼️‼️
@DrModGTA3 ай бұрын
Just the overall tone
@Fatih_M1772 ай бұрын
Looks a bit cheap for 2001 standards, the art style ia charming but the lighting is a bit uneasy on the eyes. Which is why I'm thankful we got the more dark and gritty GTA 3
@MSX98FMDnBАй бұрын
crazy how inaccurate this mod is compared to the gta3d mod by 13ag, the_hero, fire_head,, and some other big name gta modders but at the time this one was made not as much info was uncovered so a lot of content in this mod is just speculation and myths like darkel's missions and the vehicle sound design change based on canned sound effects added into trailers to make them more cinematic
@cybergothika690612 күн бұрын
Some new school gamers asks me how is possible Rockstar became so obsessed with attention to details. I always tell them this very story; it all began with them converting a top-down action game straight to third person full 3D game. Tweaking and switching to adjust details probably was an eye opener to the science of making games.
@imaginox9Ай бұрын
I can recognise the police siren and "job complete" sounds from GTA 2 ! Speaking of the police siren, the one in the final game is actually very close to the sirens used by the NYPD in the 80's and 90's
@Cnodax1Ай бұрын
This also recognizes these sounds from GTA 2. It seems that they used these sounds as a placeholder.
@RedPolarBearRanger3 ай бұрын
Not to mention the police cars and taxi cabs look more like 4th generation Chevrolet Caprices the 93-96 models.
@DrModGTA3 ай бұрын
Very true
@austinl49153 ай бұрын
Looks very similar to body harvest on the n64, which was also made by Rockstar before they changed their name to Rockstar
@AndHeScoresАй бұрын
This is GTA 2.999999999999999999999969….
@MentalParadoxАй бұрын
"This was almost how it looked" No it wasn't, it was an alpha NEVER meant to see the light of day. Your choice of words makes it seem as if they were on the verge of releasing it in this state, and changed their minds at the last minute or something
@DanteDevilTrigger6533 ай бұрын
Can't quite explain it but this gives me the Megaman Legends vibe lol
@adamderosa91423 ай бұрын
I think it's the streets! Thought the same thing haha
@kingvector11983 ай бұрын
One thing I found incredibly painful about this version.. the Cartel carry around M16's :/ (Which would change to AK's as of completing The Exchange)
@DrModGTA3 ай бұрын
So true they are super OP
@kingvector11983 ай бұрын
@@DrModGTA Yep hehe until you get Ray's hum vee or drive a bullet proof Barracks that always spawns in the Arms Shortage mission :3
@platinumpagoda30793 ай бұрын
Damn I thought you were playing the definitive edition based on the graphics.😂
@r3zmodz3 ай бұрын
I think it's better than the definitive edition
@JesseVenturaHat3 ай бұрын
@@r3zmodz yep definitely better
@KamikazeKid3 ай бұрын
Wow I never seen the alpha lol. Thanks for showing us mate! GTA 3 was so ahead of its time. Rockstar truly made a beautiful masterpiece with the actual release.
@DoomKidАй бұрын
This is a fan made mod, no such alpha exists
@mariocesarbaldessarmoro541819 сағат бұрын
Crazy how even with this bad graphics, it would still be mindblowing compared to the Ps1 and previous GTAs.
@AAKalam3 ай бұрын
7:19 poor NPC
@AyyBet3 ай бұрын
it was revolutionary in a time like 2001
@Chicken_Wing913 ай бұрын
I think the ice cream truck was used for one of the El Burro mission in the final release because you have to rig one to explode to kill the target.
@BoredToDeath1822 ай бұрын
First of all an Alpha Version was never meant to be released, so that is not what it was supposed to look like. Second even if it came out like this this would still have been an absolute game changer compared to the 2D Birds view from GTA 2...
@Rodrickheffley00113 ай бұрын
Man thats gta on nintendo 64
@bizarroeddie15 күн бұрын
There were games like this at the time or very similar, like Midtown Madness. What brought GTA3 for a whole new level was the realism of the weather. Without that, it definitely would be surpassed by other games and not be as remembered as it is today.
@Claydood23 күн бұрын
I kind of like the Alpha graphic style more. Looks more like the first two games and doesn't have that annoying motion blur. I'm sure it would look better in the correct aspect ratio instead of stretched to fill 16:9
@Rxyimm2 ай бұрын
Where is that gta 3 theme backround music from it sounds so chill and calming! Also great showcase of the alpha footage :)
@TCHUBOY19 күн бұрын
Thats called pre alpha, all games even today starts Whit very simple graphic, Mechanic's are the priority first.
@johnnypimpinz52022 ай бұрын
How video games would've been if soulless corporations like Take-Two were in charge
@0ttoRexАй бұрын
If gta 3 and specifically vice city was released in top down format, i likely would never have played any gta game ever
@weclockАй бұрын
I love the vibrant colors. I'd have spent another 1000 hours in it if it launched that way. Vice City 4 life.
@UltimatelyEverything3 ай бұрын
I like how much more clear the game looked in it's ALPHA version and the fact that it was more vibrant and had more colour.
@HaakonAndersonАй бұрын
Its the alpha version. That means it was nowhere near done. It's not how it almost looked, they hadn't applied the finished textures or lighting.
@Kotbaum3 ай бұрын
Honestly, I like the alpha Rhino better than that horrible looking thing in the finished game.
@malinalungu4073 ай бұрын
Just one question, was the Furore GT an actual GTA III car that got cut or is it just an unofficial vehicle they just added
@anunnacy3 ай бұрын
2:28 Tbh, I think for me it would've been cool enough as top-down one. It's still a graphic upgrade from GTA2, looks nice. THe only downside maybe would've been if it wouldn't have been successful enough and the series would've never gotten as big as it is today.. but who knows. :D
@thebasketballhistorian32913 ай бұрын
Spoiler alert: the is not the alpha version. I watched this whole video thinking this was a leaked alpha version of the game. Ending reveals it's just a mod someone made based on screenshots of the alpha version.
@VE-gw2sq3 ай бұрын
Greetings to you from Central Africa🤜🏾
@DrModGTA3 ай бұрын
Hello there!
@EvilDoer8399 күн бұрын
it wouldn't have sucked at the time its still an improvement compared to the previous gta games and some flash games that came much later than that looked very similar
@Super-my9ob3 ай бұрын
2:06 that explains whyin the Alpha Version the Draw Distance was Dogwater
@AeduoАй бұрын
Aside from maybe some lack of polish, I kinda like the cartoon graphics, and the PS2 games that followed kinda returned a bit to that. Eventually going entirely away from it though.
@nikto72973 ай бұрын
It properly made like this becomes gta 3 was originally planned to be released on old consoles at that time like ps1.
@cool38653 ай бұрын
it was never made for the PS1, it was going to be released for the Dreamcast until the announcement of the PS2
@nikto72973 ай бұрын
@@cool3865 Dreamcast ? Sorry My bad.
@melodicsatisfactionproductions3 ай бұрын
4:20 Claude’s last name isn’t Speed. Claude Speed is the protagonist of GTA 2, GTA 3’s Claude isn’t the same guy.
@cool38653 ай бұрын
yep because the GTA2 Claude Speed is set in 2015 and not 2000 like GTA3
@isrv15 күн бұрын
This version looks so depressing!! 😭 gta 3 as basic as it is in its final form from over 21 years ago it has life!! 😭
@movinmetal2596Ай бұрын
Looks like GTA2 with a player-based camera instead of top-down 😂
@gavcom40603 ай бұрын
lol the infernus sound is straight up ripped from an actual Lamborghini V12 engine, so technically you’re saying that lambo’s sound horrible
@Wasper2163 ай бұрын
They do.
@jeffsan499616 күн бұрын
You can definitely see the influence from body harvest
@DevinRyanVitek3 ай бұрын
No wonder Manhunt 0.69 looked like this too. Very cartoony and lacking the grit we know in both GTA 3 and Manhunt 1
@ZgermanGuy.27 күн бұрын
It looks like they were trying to do vice city but did not have the technology yet
@PlasticCogLiquid3 ай бұрын
I love how it looks, it just lacks lighting from first glance.
@bobsnow62423 ай бұрын
Just as an aside, there was NO mini map in the actual final release of GTA III. You had to navigate using a physical map that came with the box until you familiarized yourself with the city.
@corporalshepardlol2930Ай бұрын
back then, the beta was supposed to be cartoonish but rockstar changed his mind after all.
@ChrisGuzmanS3 ай бұрын
It would have looked cartoonish, reminds me to N64 body harvest
@NewOrderOfAlexandria3 ай бұрын
Love the arcade look of this version, especially at night. Looks like a racer game I'd play for $1 each go at the cinema arcades
@atenschun625423 күн бұрын
7:32 A detriment is something of negative influence. From the Latin _deterere:_ "wear away."
@Darkest_matter3 ай бұрын
9/11 is NOT that shocking... in china, buildings fall down easily from wind due to made in china quality, but with 9/11 it was US govt themselves.
@JaysasterGaming3 ай бұрын
Agencies just want more and more control of the people.
@ItDaBizАй бұрын
Something about GTA3 using GTA2 textures as placeholders is fascinating
@spencermorningstarphotosАй бұрын
for the time? that still would have been a really fun game with a lot of action! reminds me of virtuacop 2
@aneekes.2 ай бұрын
Guess textures from gta1-2 were used as a blueprint for making the map. Even here you can see some photo textures on the buildings and showcases they focused on realism.
@Larry3 ай бұрын
The art style ki da reminds me of another Rockstar Games PS2 title, State of Emergency.
@mgiebus18693 ай бұрын
Man thank God they went 3D. I remember playing GTA London and using your imagination to compensate for those awful graphics
@86sVideoDumpАй бұрын
honestly I kinda love the style of this, obviously it's not realistic like the series would end up but it's super unique
@Thesmoothestoperator3 ай бұрын
Kinda looks like they were gonna make it like the first 2 and thankfully changed their minds
@DrModGTA3 ай бұрын
Exactly! I think firstly they wanted to make a top down game again but in a rendware engine so It would be more 3d but still the same gameplay. Good thing they decided to change that
@FlightReliefАй бұрын
Watching this after completing gta 3 netflix defentive edition 100% 😂❤
@ZoldszakallАй бұрын
And apparently it was normal to see Borgnine taxis everywhere :D
@agropolygon18533 ай бұрын
Literally what the game would've released like if Early Access was the same then as it is today. Only for it to look good in 5 years
@draculastraphouse78633 ай бұрын
I love that GTA has a really dark feeling to it but honestly i wouldn't mind if it would have looked like the alpha version, it still looks good in my opinion
@worawatli89523 ай бұрын
The game is in 4:3 aspect ratio, if your screen has 4:3 option, try it, it make this looks a bit better, but it's still pretty bad compared to what was released.
@s3dms_pepsi3 ай бұрын
cartoony adult ahh game💀 (still remember that game that was released by nintendo?)
@feloniousbutterfly2 ай бұрын
"Wow this unfinished version of the game looks really bad! This would have sucked!" No shit. It's an alpha for a reason. Do you tell an artist 1/3 the way through a piece that it sucks? Do you tell a writer that is 1/3 the way through their novel that the book sucks? No! It's incomplete! It's not finished! Of course it looks like shit!!!!
@RolandoF-cm7ccАй бұрын
If this had come out on dreamcast i would have owned it for sure. All my friends had ps1 and GameCubes
@mateoortiz361Ай бұрын
Damn Sega Dreamcast had some wild graphics 😢😢😢
@Outside9983 ай бұрын
Darkel's missions were not cut because of 9/11. The time window for that is way too short to not risk breaking anything. They were removed way before, as Rockstar themselves stated in that AMA you mentioned, for just not being that good.
@xDivorex3 ай бұрын
1:53, GTA’s IV, and V both had their health indicated in the similar style. Never heard of anyone having a problem
@BobbyCarillo3 ай бұрын
I like this beta Infurnus more than the one we ended up with, it looks alot like the Infurnus classic in gta online.
@Funnyredhouse345312 күн бұрын
7:23 look what happens if u closely lmao
@BigShittin2 ай бұрын
I remember reading about this game in Game Informer magazine before it was released and the hype was so crazy.
@khaiphamba59913 ай бұрын
This makes a lot of sense. So I could say that GTA 3 was actually in the crossroad between becoming the best topdown, open-world game, or something entirely different. It seems like the devs had made a historical decision. So, if they sticked to topdown, thanks to the upgraded 3d graphics, it would actually look amazing compared to the previous. But it would STILL be topdown. On the other hand, they changed it to a 3d 3rd person game, but due to tech limitation at that time, it looked rather ugly. HOWEVER, it opened an entire new chapter, a new territory, a possibility that would change the series and the entire genre forever. Just look at San Andrea. Then IV, V, and now VI. Without that fateful decision, we may be 1 GTA generation behind. This is so amazing!
@LaurenceReeves2 ай бұрын
It’s amazing what a colour palette can do!
@bullet59772 ай бұрын
Seeing this game on birds eye makes sense - the graphics was most likely designed for the birds eye view and was changed because of the 3rd view point. Good choice to make it 3rd point view :D
@chrls5559Ай бұрын
my guy thinks an alpha build is the final version of the game T_T
@Crockett19863 ай бұрын
What shoreside vale, looks like in the beta version of GTA 3?
@presidentkiller3 ай бұрын
The only change was the airport I think. It was originally planned for Staunton Island and then it was moved to Shoreside Vale.